Sometimes they're well deserved 100 Post Parties - Tusileaf for instance. But most of the time they're not... it does make sense to disallow such crazy number parties.
agreed, I do believe that David should have 1-sub forum in social lounge for n00bs. That would sort out clutter true & it's easy to recognize them, and not have to move the thread to social lounge.
So in short, let's discuss this in the Staff lounge.